Andrea Curry-Demus

ANDREA CURRY-DEMUS FACTS Sentenced to life in prison for gutting a pregnant woman to steal her baby. Convicted of second-degree murder with mental illness.Took the baby and tried to pass it off as her own child. The baby survived the attack and now lives with his grandmother. Terrell Kian Johnson is turning 1 on Wednesday. It's also the day his mother died — when she was kidnapped, bound with duct tape and Terrell sliced from her womb.Now the woman's father, 47-year-old Eric Johnson, is...Read Full Story

Kia Johnson Woman Accused Of Stealing Fetus Pursues Insanity Defense Accused Baby Snatcher Gives Many Different Stories In Court Closing Arguments Expected Soon In Womb Slash, Fetus Theft Case Wilkinsburg Woman Found Guilty, Mentally Ill In Fetus Snatching Case Pa. woman gets life for cutting baby from womb Pa. Woman Gets Life For Cutting Baby From Womb Woman sentenced for cutting baby from mother’s womb Woman who killed to steal baby gets life Convicted In Fetus Snatching Says ‘Sorry’ To...Read Full Story

A Pittsburgh-area woman will spend life in prison for killing a pregnant teen she lured to her apartment, drugging her and cutting the child from the womb before trying to pass off the baby as her own.Forty-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus was sentenced Monday. An Allegheny County judge found the Wilkinsburg woman guilty but mentally ill of second-degree murder in March. That carries the mandatory life sentence imposed formally on Monday. The judge also tacked on 20 years for kidnapping.At her...Read Full Story

A judge has found a Pennsylvania woman guilty but mentally ill of murder for cutting a baby from the womb of a pregnant teenager, killing her.Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning on Monday convicted 40-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus of second-degree murder and kidnapping in the July 2008 death of Kia Johnson.Prosecutors say Curry-Demus lured the 18-year-old Johnson to her Wilkinsburg home, bound her, removed the baby and tried to pass it off as her own. The baby now is living with Johnson's...Read Full Story

A defense attorney for a Pittsburgh-area woman accused of cutting a baby from the womb of a pregnant teenager and passing it off as her own says she was incapable of knowing what she did was wrong.Defense attorney Christopher Patarini will try to convince an Allegheny County judge that 40-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus is not guilty by reason of insanity in the July 2008 death of 18-year-old Kia Johnson.Prosecutor Mark Tranquilli acknowledges that Curry-Demus has problems but said during opening...Read Full Story

A look at some other cases in which women were accused of cutting babies from their slain mother's wombs:_ Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death for killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett of Missouri in December 2004 at Stinnett's home. Montgomery was arrested the next day in Melvern, Kan., where she was showing off the newborn as her own._ Tiffany Hall of Illinois is serving life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to killing her pregnant friend, the unborn child and the victim's three...Read Full Story

Kia Johnson Andrea Curry-Demus went to West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh for help with the newborn baby. The baby still had it umbilical cord attached and doctors said that she had not given birth. She finally admitted that was true. She then said that she paid a woman $1,000 for the baby. Then, the body of a woman with her hands bound was found in Andrea’s apartment. AND not only that, but Andrea has tried to do this before - she spent time in prison for stabbing a woman and trying to steal...Read Full Story

Andrea Curry-Demus Video Shows Woman Accused Of Cutting Baby From Womb Meeting Victim Closing Arguments To Begin In Teen’s Murder Trial Curry-Demus Found Guilty In Murder Trial Pa. Woman Guilty of Cutting Baby From Teen’s Womb Pregnant Teen’s Killer, Baby Thief Found Guilty (But Mentally Ill)Read Full Story

I can't believe this lady was walking free all this time. If you haven't heard about her, I'm about to tell you. Andrea Curry-Demus, 38, of Wilkinsburg, is charged in the death of Kia Johnson, 18, of McKeesport. Curry-Demus is accused of taking the baby boy to a Pittsburgh hospital and claiming it was her own. Johnson's body was found Friday in Curry-Demus's apartment. The body was positively identified through dental records, Allegheny County Medical Examiner Karl Williams said Sunday.Read Full Story

On Friday, July 18, (2008) authorities discovered the gruesome scene where 18-year-old Kia Johnson's body was discovered in Andrea Curry-Demus' apartment.Johnson's womb had been ripped out and Curry-Demus had taken the baby as her own.Curry-Demus has been charged with the murder and kidnapping, but frighteningly enough, this is not the first time she has shown signs of being obsessed with having a baby of her own.In May of 1990, months after her own miscarriage, Curry-Demus was arrested for...Read Full Story